The mayor of this Pampanga capital has asked building and tourism officials to prevent the demolition of one of the last two
smokestacks inside a former sugar central that one of the country's biggest real estate developers is turning into a 35-hectare urban township.
"Due to the magnetic interference it generates, the 150-meter dual
smokestack will impair not only the aircraft instruments but the accuracy of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) and the Air Traffic Control (ATC) primary radar," they said.
Paradoxically, publishing on a shoe-string means that
Smokestack has the intellectual and commercial freedom to put into print books which mainstream publishers would be unlikely or unable to touch--for example, Tom Leonard's translation of Brecht's Mother Courage (in which Mother Courage speaks like a working-class woman from Glasgow) and Martin Rowson's three-volume satirical Limerickiad.
The
smokestack is part of Covanta's newly planned boiler system, which will burn garbage and release residue (observed as black looking smoke) much of it containing cancerous pollution.
"The series, which took eight months to produce and will run through the month, can be found at
smokestack.usatoday.com."
The old
smokestack that my friend had noticed as a child was rusted; next to it there was a newer, more modern
smokestack.
"Manufacturing should not be seen as a dirty
smokestack industry; it has transformed itself into leading edge hi-tech, value-added success.
Circuit Court of Appeals in response to a previous lawsuit by Friends of the Earth and Earthjustice challenging lack of agency action on
smokestack pollution.
Plus, flue gas temperatures must not be lowered too dramatically, says Romero, lest acids form in the gas, creating corrosion in the
smokestack.
Our sale of the
Smokestack building in Long Island City comes to mind, where we sold for a very substantial profit but the purchaser had better capacity to develop the property as a 60-story residential tower than we did.
In their film Stories Are Propaganda, 2005, a sequence of images shot in China--of a
smokestack belching black plumes, of ocean waves crashing to shore, of a rabbit appearing out of thin air in a magician's box--is accompanied by a child's long monologue.
The paper industry is often perceived as a commodity-oriented, smelly,
smokestack industry--an example of the declining American manufacturing base.
